Our guest speaker Peter Thomas has spent the last ten years exploring that question. He will talk about the importance of values in life, including business, parenting and just plain living.

The topic is even more relevant today with revenues falling, unemployment rising and pressure on increasing the bottom line. Leaders are under greater pressure than ever to get results.
 
From Madoff and the alleged Ponzi scheme based in Calgary to massive bank bailouts followed by huge executive bonuses, business leaders have lost sight of their values in favour of the bottom line.

As the founder Century 21 Canada and the developer of several billion dollars of real estate projects in North America, Peter Thomas understands the challenges of succeeding in business without compromising what you stand for.

Thomas shows that we have choices: we can live by our values and incorporate them into our business life or we can abandon them in our chase to the top. Employing and standing up for your values is the difference between an effective leader and a follower.  It is a true measure of achievement.
 
Thomas is launching his third book this, Be Great: The Five Foundations of an Extraordinary Life in Business - and Beyond, and in conjunction with Royal Roads University in Victoria, has just launched The Todd Thomas Institute for Values-Based Leadership. Envisioned to become a leader in education, research and practices to scholars, entrepreneurs and institutional and community leaders, the institute will focus on the practice of values-based leadership. More information is available at www.royalroads.ca/tti <http://www.royalroads.ca/tti>

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